They had one of these monstrosities in the homecoming parade today

[TheMightyFavog]

The International CXT, for those whose penis is so small that not even a hummer is big enough to compensate.

It was plastered with ads for Cokes Vault Energy Drink.

[thefool_wa]

1. OMG!

How decadent and opulent. I can hear the planet screaming at that gas-guzzling, pollution pumping, hyper-expensive piece of CR*P's very existence!!!!

Its like the automobile companies don't even care what their products do to the world.

[Deja Q]

6. From what I've been reading,

those who buy don't care either. And, increasingly, those folks live in countries whose economies are booming big-time (in short, any country that's not the US)

Conservation is only for those who don't have money.

[RetroLounge]

2. My Neighbor has one inhis driveway

like a big pickup on steroids. It's for his business, but still, WTF?

RL

[Jamastiene]

3. You gotta be shitting me.

That's actually for people to buy and drive in their ordinary lives and not for a company to use to hauls lots of stuff? I'm flabbergasted. I cannot believe it. That dude must have taken steroids a long time to shrink one eyed willy that bad. Oh mercy. It IS pretty bad when a hummer isn't enough.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. It didn't even haul anything

It was just a big rolling billboard.

I can see modifying one of these for wildland firefighing, like they do in Europe with Unimogs, but to use it like this. Ri-fucking-diculous!

[Jamastiene]

5. Exactly. If it does work and helps people get major jobs

finished, I can totally see it, but just to run to the grocery store, nah. I see Humvees at the grocery store over at Food Lion here. It's a small town with lots of poverty. I can almost guarantee that the person who owns them can't really afford them here at least. It's ridiculous.

[DBoon]

7. Why not just buy a Peterbilt cab and drive it around

You could at least play at being a trucker in the process.

Sort of like Marie Antoinette playing at being a peasant

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Don't you need a CDL for those?

I think at least with the CXT, you don't need a CDL.

[Kutjara]

9. Absurd.

Topheavy, under-tired, wasteful and pointless. It looks like you'd need a ladder to be able to reach the flatbed anyway, so it's not even a practical load hauler. I can't think of a single non-commercial use for that thing that can't be achieved better by virtually any other car or truck on the market. Actually, I can't think of any use at all for it except perhaps as low cost housing for large, agile families.